Lessons from Robert Mugabe’s death Nigeria TuesdayThoughts
AT the ripe age of 95, death has finally taken away Zimbabwe’s former leader, Robert Gabriel Mugabe. Initially hailed as a courageous freedom fighter, who led the guerrilla movement that liberated his country from decades of white minority rule, Mugabe died in exile in Singapore last Friday after losing the battle with his failing health. Mugabe’s role as a liberation fighter resonates with the African elite, but the ordinary Zimbabwean is still feeling the effects of his 37-year misrule.
At independence, Zimbabwe, with a pleasant climate, was regarded as a favourite destination by global investors. With ample investment in education and health services, the Southern African country had a life expectancy of 60 years and a buoyant economy. His ZANU-PF-led government embarked on robust economic policies: expenditure on education and health tripled between 1979 and 1990, while a living minimum wage was introduced.
In all this, he became power drunk. At the height of his delusion, he once declared infamously, “Only God, who appointed me, will remove me.” He schemed and conspired with the army to rig elections repeatedly until the same military, apparently afraid of Mugabe’s wife – Grace – succeeding the husband, toppled him in November 2017. By that time, he had spent 37 years in power, replaced by his former military sidekick and enforcer, Emmerson “Crocodile” Mnangagwa.
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